531, 3636, 3643, 4321, 5097,
7078, 7083, 7173, 7270, 8812, 10809). The Lord is seen as a sun
and as a moon (n. 1531, 7173). The Lord's Divine Itself is far
above His Divine in heaven (n. 7270, 8760).
{Footnote 2} "Fire" in the Word signifies love, both in a good
sense and in a bad sense (n. 934, 4906, 5215). Holy or heavenly
fire signifies the Divine Love (n. 934, 6314, 6832). Infernal
fire signifies love of self and of the world and every lust of
those loves (n. 1861, 5071, 6314, 6832, 7575, 10747). Love is
the fire of life and life itself is really from it (n. 4906,
5071, 6032, 6314). "Light" signifies the truth of faith (n.
3195, 3485, 3636, 3643, 3993, 4302, 4413, 4415, 9548, 9684).
{Footnote 3} The sight of the left eye corresponds to truths of
faith, and the sight of the right eye to their goods (n. 4410,
6923).
{Footnote 4} The things on man's right have relation to good
from which is truth, and those on his left to truth from good
(n. 9495, 9604).
119. This is why in the Word the Lord in respect to love is likened
to the sun, and in respect to faith to the moon; also that the "sun"
signifies love from the Lord to the Lord, and the "moon" signifies
faith from the Lord in the Lord, as in the following passages:
The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light
of seven days (Isa. 30:26).
And when I shall extinguish thee I will cover the heavens
and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with
a cloud, and the moon shall not make her light to shine.
All luminaries of light in the heavens will I make dark
over thee, and I will set darkness upon thy land (Ezek.
32:7, 8).
I will darken the sun in his going forth, and the moon
shall not make her light to shine (Isa. 13:10)
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars
shall withdraw their shining. The sun shall be turned into
darkness and the moon into blood (Joel 2:2, 10, 31; 3:16).
The sun became black as sackcloth and hair, and the moon
became as blood, and the stars fell unto the earth (Apoc.
6:12, 13).
Immediately after the affliction of those days the sun
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven (Matt. 24:29).
And elsewhere. In these passages the "sun" signifies love, a
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